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Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica:
Researchers boost processor performance by getting CPU and GPU to collaborate  —  Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a technique to take advantage of the “fused architecture” emerging on multicore CPUs that puts central processing units and graphics processing units on the same chip.

Brian Anthony Hernandez / Mashable!:
Lady Gaga's New Social Network Resembles Pinterest, Reddit [PICS]  —  LittleMonsters.com  —  Pop megastar Lady Gaga has pierced her powerful, digitally-willing paws deeper into the online world with the closed beta launch of her new social network.  —  LittleMonsters.com …

Enigmax / TorrentFreak:
Elite Anti-Terror Police Went After Megaupload's Kim Dotcom  —  Even after taking in the details of today's 3Newz report several times, it is harder than ever to comprehend what happened at the Dotcom mansion last month.  —  We knew that dozens of police swooped on the location in helicopters and we knew they were armed.

Matt Brian / The Next Web:
Nokia to cut 4,000 smartphone production jobs in Hungary, Mexico and Finland  —  Nokia has said up to 4,000 jobs could be cut from its smartphone production plants in Mexico, Hungary and Finland, shifting them to Asia as it continues to adapt its market strategy and cut company costs associated with manufacturing.

Michael Arrington / Uncrunched:
Hey Path, Just Nuke All The Data  —  The story of the day is definitely about Path (a CrunchFund portfolio company).  The company has been copying address book information to their servers without user knowledge.  —  The company was apparently already aware of the issue and was taking steps …

Kashmir Hill / The Not-So Private Parts:
Max Schrems: The Austrian Thorn In Facebook's Side  —  Max Schrems, a 24-year-old law student from Austria, has become one of Facebook's most prominent critics  —  There are likely many things about Facebook that annoy you.  Wouldn't it be nice if you could sit down for six hours …

Evan Blass / pocketnow.com:
LG Miracle Windows Phone Revealed (Image)  —  LG is preparing a mid-range Windows Phone codenamed LG Miracle — it's actually the same handset we saw in the wild back in December; at the time we speculated that it was another rumored WP7 known as the Fantasy.

Emil Protalinski / Friending Facebook Blog:
Facebook rolls out new photo viewer, similar to Google+  —  Summary: Facebook has started rolling out a new photo viewer that looks like what Google+ currently offers: image on the left and everything else on the right.  Do you have it yet?  —  Last week, Facebook started testing …

Jon Russell / The Next Web:
Apple seeks industry-wide principles for patent licensing in Europe  —  Apple has asked the telecom standards body responsible for patent licensing across Europe to lay down a set of basic principles to define how companies license patents, according to a letter written in November that has emerged today.

Dan Graziano / BGR:
Siri accounts for nearly 25% of Wolfram Alpha queries  —  Nearly 25% of queries fielded by the Wolfram Alpha answer-engine come from Apple's voice-powered assistant Siri, according to the New York Times.  Wolfram Alpha is an online service that gives fact-based answers to queries directly …

Pui-Wing Tam / Wall Street Journal:
Silicon Valley Recovering Faster Than Nation  —  Even before Facebook Inc. goes public, Silicon Valley is experiencing a surge in jobs and per-capita income, in contrast to the weak economic situation dogging the rest of the nation.  —  According to a new closely watched report on Silicon Valley …

Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
PolitiFact Trashes Lamar Smith: Says His Claims About Economic Impact Of Piracy Are Flat Out False  —  We've pointed out before that Lamar Smith based his entire argument for why SOPA was needed on misleading or simply incorrect claims — but who are we to say that?

Stefanie Fogel / VentureBeat:
LG, Unity Technologies team up to bring video games to Smart TVs  —  Unity Technologies and electronics manufacturing giant LG are teaming up to bring video games to Smart TVs in 2012.  —  The deal is similar to one LG recently made with cloud gaming service Gaikai and is all part …

Jim Cramer / TheStreet:
The Best Super Bowl Ad  —  I saw a lot of commercials last night that were cute.  Funny dogs.  Smiling, mischievous babies.  Lovable polar bears.  I saw some stupid ones, too, like the insulting and endless demeaning of women by GoDaddy, or something about a kid relieving himself in pool.

Brian X. Chen / Bits:
At Super Bowl Stadium, More Mobile Uploads Than Downloads  —  In addition to beer and popcorn, football fans who crowded into the Super Bowl stadium in Indianapolis over the weekend were consuming copious amounts of data from wireless networks.  AT&T, the nation's No. 2 carrier …

Bruce Houghton / hypebot:
Remember iLike?  The Social Music Network Officially Died Today  —  In the the spring of 2009, iLike had 45 million registered users and was the #1 music application on Facebook.  “Is There An iLike Effect?”, we asked then; and the answer was yes.  The #1 and #2 albums on iTunes were Keith Urban's …

Kevin Krause / Android Phone Fans:
Adobe: Chrome for Android will not get Flash support  —  When Google today launched Chrome for Android in beta they did so without support for Adobe Flash.  For many users this seemed surprising given the strong push for Flash on Google's mobile OS after Steve Jobs and Apple refused to allow Adobe's platform on their iOS devices.

Reuters:
Hacker releases Symantec source code  —  (Reuters) - A hacker released the source code for antivirus firm Symantec's pcAnywhere utility on Tuesday, raising fears that others could find security holes in the product and attempt takeovers of customer computers.

Bloomberg:
Google Said to Plan to Assure That It Will License Motorola Patents Fairly  —  Google Inc., the largest maker of smartphone software, plans to send a letter to standards organizations reassuring them it will license Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. patents on a fair and reasonable basis …

Ryan Lawler / GigaOM:
Apple's iTV and the carrier question  —  Evidence is slowly emerging that Apple could be working with operator partners for the introduction of its upcoming iTV product.  Last week, Bloomberg reported that Apple may get access to programs through partnerships with carriers such as AT&T and Verizon.